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For sure the contract situation is not great. But I'm still thinking to pursue it after my PhD. It's more rewarding in some ways than consultancy... Obviously the reward is not financial! Helps to have a partner with a more reliable job.
Share more about your potential research topic if you care to...
Cupcakes-
My wife just applied for a interactive design manager (I think) job at LEGO. If she gets that I can relax and just do what I want :)
I am hoping to do a didactic PhD on workshop based teaching in architecture. Basically I want to build bridge between material knowledge/studies, manufacturing and architectural design. There's a new building code happening in Denmark from 2023 and there will be much more focus on LCAs and there will be requirements to reuse building materials in the industry. This leaves a lot of architecture offices in situations where they don't actually know what to do. I am hoping to research in how we can teach more practical skills and have more material understanding so we can repurpose materials or build/design for reuse and disassembly to a higher degree. I am currently interested in Bricolage as a principle for developing teaching methods and looking at workshops as teaching spaces.
Hulsroy
Gotcha didn't know HE as an abbreviation.
My main reason for not wanting to teaching is these arsehole short term contracts.